Stumble Sunday

Good morrow friends. Here I am with the latest Stumble Sunday. As usual, none of the content is mine, unless otherwise stated. Happy Sunday folks.

This could be para, para, paradise:

There are a lot stories circulating the internet that follow the theme of animals adopting babies that aren’t their own, but somehow I always seem to get entirely sucked in by them. Here is Lisha the labrador with some of her adopted children.

This is a great tool for writers who just need a quick check of a paragraph or chapter without having to draft someone else in to help. It provides an outsider perspective so that you don’t get too bogged down in your own writing. Brilliant. I wish I’d known about this earlier.

A rather cool Vanity Fair feature that reminds of Theatre Studies at college. “On three, be a freeze-frame of a mother in a supermarket who has her arms full of shopping and has momentarily lost her child”. Here are some familiar faces doing exercises similar to this, making for some interesting photographs.

Here is a video compilation providing concrete proof that humans are silly. Frankly, some of these people absolutely deserve to be hurt as a result of some truly idiotic ideas.

Warning: this article contains some very poor English, but the point of my posting this is: how damn cool is this natural waterslide? It looks like so much fun.

I like giraffes. I like miniature things. So of course I love miniature giraffes. If you do too, then you can watch Vladimir the petite-lap giraffe on Sokoblovsky Farm, until your heart is all fuzzy and warm.

A really, really interesting article about the increase in preference for baby girls over baby boys. Some of the girl-boy ratios in some parts of the world are astounding and really make you wonder what kind of messages inform these practices, or indeed what these practices come to mean for social understandings of gender.

Gorgeous:

I absolutely adore these bus photographs. They tick all my boxes – abandonment, beauty, haunting – just lovely.

Ok, I absolutely cannot fathom why people still continue in their attempts to publicly slander, humiliate, or just plain slag off people they know over the internet. I promise you, it WILL backfire, and you WILL end up looking like a fool. Like this girl. Don’t do it people!!! The internet is a big open place, where you can, and probably will, be found.

I think I may have posted this before, but oh it soothes my soul. So clean, so tidy, so organised. Heaven.

Please turn up your sound, and prepare to melt at this cuteness:

Oh piss off Woman’s Day magazine, with your 9 Things You Should Never Say To Your Husband. My issues with this article are endless, but here are a few of my thoughts.
1. Are we really still operating on that whole “women and men are from different planets so they don’t understand each other” bullshit philosophy?
2. Gender doesn’t even need to figure into this. You don’t need to be a total genius to figure out that lying about an orgasm, making somebody feel inadequate, and moaning that someone doesn’t have a job, might make them upset.
3. If you and your husband get on well and have a successful relationship, chances are you can probably talk about the fact that he doesn’t know how to make you orgasm, you probably believe that he is capable of looking after his own offspring because you decided to have a child with him in the first place, and you understand why can’t/isn’t getting a job because you communicate.
4. If you need to read an article in a magazine to be able to communicate and have a successful relationship with someone who you decided to marry, not just date, marry, then I’d say you’re in the shit.

Star Wars Stumble: Vader throwing some shapes.

And my cutie for today, since we’ve not had a cat for a while (as if you haven’t had enough cute already):

I’m off to watch the end of this crazy tennis.

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